>I'm forwarding this message to the Croatia-L list from GEN-Slavic >because of the close proximity of Slovene and Croatian names. The >author also doesn't seem to have posted it to the Slovene list at >Rootsweb. Appologies if this is a duplication in your box. Sherry, please note the surnames below. If these names below interest any of you or if you want more information, would you contact the author, not me. I have no connection here other than wishing for as many people as possible to find their families. In this instance, the families are not mine and I have no additional information. Good hunting in 2002, Ashley ****************************************************************************** Original-Sender: [email protected] Fri Jan 18 10:26:14 2002 >X-Loop: [email protected] >Resent-Sender: [email protected] > > Here is the latest update to the geneology project I have been >working on for nearly three years. On the Samsa side, there is a >significant recent discovery, and there are numerous updates to >dates, names, locations, and immigration information. > The ellisisland.org site now offers the opportunity to view and >order copies of the actual ships manifest for those who came through >the island. Previously, only limited information had been available >in text format. There are obviously numerous advantages to this - >most notably that one can now see who an immigrant's sponsor was. > An excellent example here is that I have discovered that Maria >Samsa had a brother, living in Chisholm, who sponsored her. I have >heard for years that she had known John, Sr., from Gora, and >travekled to marry him in the US. > This is either not the true story, or only partially true. She >was sponsored by her brother, Josef, who was living in Chisholm at >the time, and died in 1923. (His postal address was Box 423, >Chisholm, MN.) > My next task is to pursue the Josef Samsa branch, both back to to >Gora, and to research any marriage or children he may have had. > If you have any information you would like to share, >including dates and locations of births, christenings/baptism, >confirmations, first communions, adoptions, marriages, deaths/cause >of death, burials, graduations, military service, >emigration/immigration, lawful entry, ship of travel, >naturalization, illness, moves, occupations, ordination, etc., >and/or any photos of the above (or even family photos), please let >me know via email or at 952-928-3896. Photos may be either sent in >any digital format (preferably .jpeg) via email; if you do not have >a scanner available I can scan anything and return them to you >within 48 hours of receipt, by US Mail, FedEx, or otherwise. My >home address is 6405 Colony Way, #2D, Edina, MN 55435-2254. > Additionally, if you would like to assist with this project >in any way, please also let me know. All information is available >to anyone inluded in the database by request. This can be sent by >email or snail mail. I would suggest you use FamilySearch Personal >Ancestral File, version 5.1, which is available for download at no >cost at www.familysearch.org. This application uses file extensions >developed by the Mormon Church, and thus allows you to access any >ancestral files published worlwide, and also includes translation >capabilities. > Please feel free to forward this message to anyone you think might >be interested in this information, who is not included on the "Sent >to" list above. > >Until next time... > >-Ken Peterson > > > The following message has been posted to the Geneology.com >website, which is probably the most popular and one of the most >useful geneological websites available. > > I now have a collection of nearly 200 names associated with the >Gregor Samsa/Agnes Lustic (Gora, Slovenia), Charles Strand/Laura >("Jenny") Joyce (Duluth, MN), Torel (Thorwald?)/Christine Peterson >(Duluth, MN), and Vajo "Mike" and Eva Vukad/Vukadinovich (various >spellings), (Brylog, Austro-Hungaria) families. > Among these, I have recently discovered that Maria Samsa (surname >both birth and married name), who was married to Johan/John Samsa >Sr. (son of Gregor), was sponsored by her brother, named Josef, who >was living in Chisholm at the time of her immigration in 1910. This >would explain the "two Samsa families" in Chisholm, MN., long >thought to be unrelated. > Josef Samsa died in 1923, and I have not yet done any research on >his marriage or other family members, but this is my next step. > Associated names are: Baron, Bourdage, Cranston, Dehn, Doig, >Fechner, Galey, Gardner, Gersich, Gunderson, Holberg, Jacobsen, >Jane, Jankula, Jensen, Jones, Joyce, Kries, Lauzon, Lustic, >Mehelich, Nadeau, Nosen, Peterson, Powers, Rushak, Salminen, Samsa, >Smolensky, Staffaroni, Strand, Straps, Vukad, Vukadinavich, >Vukadinovich (various spellings) and Wendel. > Significant associated places are: Balnitza, Galatia, >Austria; Bear River, MN; Brylog, Austro-Hungaria; Buhl, MN; >Chisholm, MN; Crooks, SD; Detroit, MI; Duluth, MN; Florida; French >Township, MN; Gilbert, MN; Gora, Austria; Harris County, TX; >Hennepin County, MN; Hibbing, MN; Houston, TX; International Falls, >MN; Liverpool, England; Livingston, TX; Lutsen MN; Milwaukee, WI; >Minneapolis, MN; Minnehaha County, SD; Nova Scotia, Canada; Polk >County, TX; Post, TX; Racine, WI; Rauch, MN; Rochester, MN; Ronan, >MT; St. Cloud, MN; St. Louis County, MN; St. Louis Park, MN; St. >Paul, MN; Serbia; Side Lake, MN; Village of Smilnyk, Galicia, >Austria; Souix Falls, South Dakota; Sparta, MN; Triest, >Austro-Hungaria; Virginia, MN. > > --